St John’s Point

I've visited St John's Point in County Down on a number of occasions and time after time it gets the better of me. I can see the long exposure photograph I want to create but the conditions just never seem to be right. I decided to take a quick visit...

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To Mourne the Snow

April 2, 2013  |  Blog, Landscapes  | 
To Mourne the Snow

During the recent Snow in Northern Ireland we attempted to make our way through Silent Valley but had to turn and go back. Not to be deterred we attempted the trip again today and despite a thaw we only managed to get marginally closer. The coldest March on over 50...

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Bad Eddie

March 27, 2013  |  Featured, Landscapes  |  ,
Bad Eddie

Bád Eddie or Eddie's boat are the names given to the old wreck at Magherclogher beach, Bunbeg Donegal. Cara Na Mara (‘Friend of the Sea’) is the official title of the abandoned fishing vessel ran into trouble during stormy seas in the early 1970s. The boat featured in the 1985...

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Remains of Dunlewey Church

March 26, 2013  |  Featured, Landscapes  |  ,
Remains of Dunlewey Church

On Poison Glen, in the area of Gweedore lies Dunlewey Church, the ruin of the 'Chapel of Ease to Tullaghabegley'. It is remarkable but this first sentence although sounding like the introduction to a CS Lewis novel is actually fact. It was a bleak March and the Church ruin likes...

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